but what about spell checker ? pagination ? indeed, for my user, what’s the most important ? currently no clue of it, and I’ll say, don’t think to much at the question before the first proto. Human are so strange, than the need can come from nowhere …..

May be, import text from forum, internet, or paste to forum will be the key requirement.

After, from a technical point of view, as I know i’ll need to include most of a standard authoring tools fonctionnality, will I make the wheel again, or will I extend a standard tools ? (word/office), extend a wiki like tool ? extend a forum tool ? use the remote publication mode of word/office/wiki ? Will I force my user to be online to edit content, of will I allow offline authoring ? ……

Lot of question/answers I’ll have after the first prototype….

So, as a first conclusion, doing a quick/rapid prototype seems to be a key success factor in this area.

Agility will help me to focus on the most valuable features to my end user, and to deliver on a regular basis working prototypes.